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Book Review: JOHN GUILLERMIN: THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE MOVIES

Billed as a book on ‘one of the best Hollywood directors nobody knows’, John Guillermin: The Man, The Myth, The Movies is a fascinating look at the life and career of the director behind such films as The Towering Inferno, King Kong [...]

December 30, 2020

Uncovering Curiosities: John Irvin’s GHOST STORY

They don’t make them like Ghost Story anymore. This 1981 horror from director John Irvin has a cast of Hollywood greats (Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and John Houseman) playing an elderly gentlemen’s group haunted by a [...]

December 9, 2020

Behind The Scenes: John Guillermin Directs Paul Newman & Steve McQueen On The Set Of THE TOWERING INFERNO

John Guillermin’s The Towering Inferno is one of the defining disaster movies of the 1970s. The Paul Newman/Steve McQueen led film is an epic piece of film-making and John McTiernan’s Die Hard owes quite a bit to Guillermin’s [...]

December 7, 2020

Blu-ray Review: A Great Cast & Jack Cardiff’s Glorious Cinematography Make GHOST STORY A Must-See

They don’t make them like Ghost Story anymore. This 1981 horror has a cast of Hollywood greats (Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and John Houseman) playing an elderly gentlemen’s group haunted by a deep dark secret. This [...]

December 9, 2015